Download websites that use Meebo

About Meebo

The company recorded against this entry is not the company that built the product. Google occupies the vendor field because it acquired Meebo and then retired it, which was an ordinary ending for a social widget of that generation and an awkward one for a technology catalogue, since the field now names an owner rather than an author. Our records for the product begin at 2005.

A retired widget that still resolves in page source is a dating instrument rather than a description of what a site does. The JavaScript include was pasted into a template during the years when publishers bolted sharing bars and chat toolbars onto every article, and it survived because nobody rewrote the template afterwards. Presence tells you roughly when the front end was last taken seriously, and very little else.

Because the product was Proprietary software, no community fork kept a version alive and no self-hosted successor muddies the picture. Every match is legacy code and nothing more. An agency selling rebuilds can treat the row as a qualifier that is harder to argue with than a slow page, since a dead vendor call is not a matter of taste. A site owner reading the same row is looking at a request that costs a lookup and returns nothing.

As of October 2026 the reference still appears on 5 sites, filed under Widgets for the function it once had. Numbers this small depend heavily on how a page renders and on whether the reference sits in the delivered markup or behind a script that never executes, so the figure is a floor, and the movement between releases carries more information than the level does.

Dead products stay in detection catalogues for a reason, and the reason is not sentiment. A fingerprint that only matches abandoned pages is a good cohort marker, because it selects hosts by the year they were last rebuilt rather than by anything they claim about themselves. Combined with the server software and the certificate on the same host, a fossil tag helps sort a domain into an age bracket without guessing from the design, and age brackets are what you need for questions about maintenance, abandonment and the long tail of the web.

The research value sits in the aggregate. Anyone studying how long third-party code outlives the service behind it needs the whole set of domains, not one verified example, because the quantities that matter are the shape of the decay and what the surviving hosts have in common. A domain lookup answers a question about a single page. The download answers which corners of the web are still calling a service that was switched off long ago, and that question has no per-domain form at all.